Four Guest Essays. Guessays?
Two playlists, one style interview, and a theory of good book covers.
Did you know Overmorrow is now available for free on Kindle Unlimited? And it’s the final version? If you have kindle, go check it out right now. More to come on this. Or just preorder the paperback on Amazon or Barnes and Noble.
Meanwhile, what are you working on? Making? What are you loving? Reading? Watching? Thinking / exploring?
Hey friends, I won’t do this often, but I’m taking you offsite today because I realized most of you didn’t know about four guest posts I wrote here on Substack and elsewhere. Please comment wherever you can: it’ll help circulation and cross pollination in the Substack ecosystem:
Following the death of their father, Lancelot Schaubert and his sister faced a third choice; their father had taken on the gargantuan idea of cataloging every song he ever loved. Ever. Decades worth of tracks as a memory exercise saved for posterity in a neatly packaged playlist.
Seems easy—and portable-- enough, right? Except he passed midway through the project. What Lancelot and co. were left with were decades worth of sparks and flickers of inspiration, song titles written on scraps of paper, on fabric, on just about any piece of material you can imagine. Fragments that, if reassembled correctly, would go a long way toward telling them the story of who their dad was.
To what extent should writers avoid cliché?
To the extent that this question is asked.
That is to say the people asking the cliche question allegedly care the most. So there's an inverse relationship to the cliche of the question and the cliche in the work.
Playfulness Makes the Best Book Covers
Between giving honor where honor’s due in the credits of my books and my covers showing up on Damonza’s portfolio and banners, authors ask me often about my experience with the team here. I always say wonderful. Easy. Joyful. Fun. Fruitful. That was the case for Bell Hammers — which Publisher’s Weekly called “a hoot” — as well as Overmorrow and Tap & Die.
I seldom say why it was fun and easy. Click here for why.
While we’re here, did you know Overmorrow is now available for free on Kindle Unlimited? And it’s the final version?
If you have kindle, go check it out right now. More to come on this. Or just preorder the paperback on Amazon or Barnes and Noble.
Meanwhile, what are you working on? Making? What are you loving? Reading? Watching? Thinking / exploring?